Cambridge. Harvard University Library, MS Eng 530

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Library: Houghton Library, Harvard University

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MS Eng 530

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Date

1450

Language

Middle English

Title

Complaint of Christ
Damage and destruction in realmes
The governance of princes
Guy of Warwick
Joannes, of Hildesheim (-1375). Historia trium regum
Compleynt of Cryst Guy of Warwick ; etc. : manuscript, [ca. 1450]
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Agent

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- John Lydgate (1370?-1450?)
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- Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?)
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- Lydgate, John
- John Lydgate
- Lydgate
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Lydgate, John (1370-1451)
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, author.
- John Lydgate, 1370?-1451?
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- John Shirley (1366?-1456)
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- Shirley, John (1366?-1456)
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- Joseph Lilly (1804-1870)
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- Former owner
- Recipient
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- Lilly, Joseph (1804-1870)
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- William Gibbons Medlicott (1816-1883)
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- Former owner
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- Medlicott, William Gibbons (1816-1883)
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- Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886)
Original form
- Bradshaw, Henry (1831-1886)
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- Anthony Ian Doyle (1925-2018)
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- Doyle, A. I. (Anthony Ian) (1925-)
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- Jean d'Hildesheim (1315?-1375)
Original form
- Joannes, of Hildesheim (-1375)
Other form
- Author: Johannes, Hildesheimensis
- John of Hildesheim OCarm
- Johannes<Hildesheimensis>
- Joannes, of Hildesheim, -1375. Historia trium regum. Selections. English (Middle English)
- Johannes de Hildesheim
- Johannes de Hildesheim, ?-1375
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Description

Physical Description:
211 leaves, bound ; 30 cm.

Notes:
Written in at least two unidentified hands in mixed cursive script; with flourished initials and rubrics.
Bound in 19th-cent. blind tooled calf.
Curatorial file contains a letter to Joseph Lilly from Henry Bradshaw, dated 31 July 1866; copy of a ltter from A. I. Doyle, dated 1 January 1950; and other material concerning the manuscript.
In a tray case, 32 cm.
MS Eng 530. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Subjects:
Caesar, Julius
Brutus the Trojan, (Legendary character) -- Romances
Guy of Warwick (Legendary character) -- Romances
Magi -- Legends -- Early works to 1800
Education of princes -- Early works to 1800
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485 -- Early works to 1800

Form / Genre:
Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1400-1450.
Manuscripts, Medieval-England-1450-1500.

Contents:
1. Compleynt of Cryst; imperfect at beginning (ff. 1-4r) -- 2. Guy of Warwick / John Lydgate (4v-12r) -- 3. The three kings of Coleyne / John of Hildesheim (13r-33v) -- 4. The governaunce of princes (34r-48r) -- 5. Damage and destruction in realmes / John Lydgate (49r-57v) -- 6. Shirley's Chronicles of England; imperfect at end (59r-211v).

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- England (United Kingdom)
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- England
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- Angleterre
- Angleterre (?)
- Angleterre.
- Angleterre ?
- Anglaterra
- Inglaterra
- Engeland
- Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
- Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
- Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
- England (Salisbury?)
- [Oxford?]
- [England]
- England, Norwich?
- England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
- England, Cornwall?
- England, St. Albans?
- England, North?
- England, York?
- England, Witham?
- England, Winchester or St. Albans
- England, Reading or Leominster
- England, Cirencester?
- England, Sherborne?
- England, Worcester?
- England, Bury St. Edmunds?
- England, Tewkesbury?
- England, East Anglia?
- England, Peterborough?
- England, Mercia?
- England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
- England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
- England, Winchester?
- England, Oxford?
- Flanders (possibly executed in England)
- England and Netherlands
- England, Canterbury?
- England, West Midlands?
- England, London?
- England, Crowland?
- England, Wessex?
- England, Reading?
- England, Northeast?
- England, Southeast?
- England, Ely?
- England, Winchester or Hereford?
- England, Salisbury?
- England, Oxford or Salisbury
- German (but made in England)
- England, South East (?)
- England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
- Hereford?, England
- England, Durham ?
- England, Durham?
- England, probably Durham
- England, Oxford (?)
- England, possibly Oxford
- England (?Oxford)
- England, Durham (?)
- England, London/Westminster
- Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
- Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
- Engeland (?)
- England (II)
- I. England
- [Engeland]
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